The government has been heavily involved since 2009 in terms of funding programs for the use of accelerators to produce isotopes. The Sherbrooke centre has twice received funding from the Canadian government to find a way to use cyclotrons to produce technetium.
We can produce technetium and we are allowed to use it on humans, but we are still at the research stage. However, when it comes to producing technetium isotopes, we expect that, by March 2018, we will even be able to move on to the commercial stage and then supply other Quebec hospitals with isotopes produced in Sherbrooke.